WHITE LIES
AN INVESTIGATIVE PODCAST FROM NPR
"In 1965, a white minister was murdered in Selma, Alabama. For more than 50 years, witnesses buried the truth about what happened.
Explore a visual narrative of the facts, then listen to the podcast to hear how we finally set the record straight.
This is the story of a murder at the center of the civil rights movement and the lies that kept it from being solved. It’s an event that rippled far beyond the time and place where it happened, sparking national outrage and galvanizing support for one of the most significant laws of the 20th century.
This narrative uses audio and documents recorded and printed in 1965.
Some images may be disturbing. We’ve chosen not to censor offensive language..."
White Lies
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James Reeb
"James Reeb (January 1, 1927 – March 11, 1965) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister, pastor, and activist during the Civil rights movement in Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts. While participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches actions in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, he was murdered by white segregationists, dying of head injuries in the hospital two days after being severely beaten...."
James Reeb - Wikipedia
(James Reeb)